TED-Ed "Everything happens for a reason" -- and other lies I've loved

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From: TED Talks Daily - Tuesday Jun 04, 2019 11:08 pm
"Everything happens for a reason" -- and other lies I've loved
"In the darkness ... there will be beauty and there will be love."  View e-mail in browser.

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"Everything happens for a reason" -- and other lies I've loved

14:49 minutes · TEDMED 2018

In life's toughest moments, how do you go on living? Kate Bowler has been exploring this question ever since she was diagnosed with stage IV cancer at age 35. In a profound, heartbreaking and unexpectedly funny talk, she offers some answers -- challenging the idea that "everything happens for a reason" and sharing hard-won wisdom about how to make sense of the world after your life is suddenly, completely changed. "I believe that in the darkness, even there, there will be beauty and there will be love," she says.

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